EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE, EVERY TIME.
What is Play Safe?
Every season, English football comes together to promote Play Safe.
It’s a year-round campaign that amplifies the importance of safeguarding across all levels of the game.
Making sure football is safe, fun, and enjoyable for everyone, everywhere, every time.
Why is Play Safe important?
Anyone’s love of football can be taken away by negative behaviour and abuse. Safeguarding prevents this from happening. A Play Safe weekend at the start of each season is there to put safeguarding at the forefront of people’s minds. It reminds everyone to watch, listen, talk, act in every football environment.
The Play Safe Weekend
The Play Safe Weekend comes around every year to celebrate our collective effort, support, and care.
For Play Safe 2024 over the weekend of 28/29 September, we asked everyone to know their role in safeguarding.
This means no matter what role you have in football, you know your role and responsibility in making it a safe space for all.
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When everyone knows their role, together we create an ever-safer game.
Three survivors’ stories of sexual abuse in football
Three survivors of non-recent childhood sexual abuse in football, share their experiences and discuss how safeguarding requires adults, including parents/carers to spot the signs, ask the right questions and speak up to prevent abuse from happening.
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For a chance to tell us about what you do to make the game safer, click to download the filming guide below. Within it you’ll find the link to submit your video and consent form.
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Play Safe merchandise
There’s a range of Play Safe merchandise available to show your support for the ongoing campaign – especially over the Play Safe weekend.
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